"Do you know, I now think that this striving, longing, hoping for better days to come is not the true way to holiness, happiness or usefulness.
It is better, no doubt, far better than being satisfied with poor attainments, but not the best way after all. I have been struck with a passage from a book . . . entitled Christ is All. It says;
Only by thinking of all that Jesus is and all He is for us: His life, His death, His work, He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be the subject of our constant thoughts. Not a striving to have faith . . . but a looking off to the Faithful One seems all we need; a resting in the Loved One entirely, for time and for eternity."
Hudson Taylor
Five years ago i posted this quote from Taylor's biography as one of the first things on this blog. A few of us had been listening the audio version and when we came to this section we each paused for weeks to search it out, think upon it and assess our own lives in light of it. For me it has meant taking the focus off having more faith, and placed it on having more of Christ.
I cannot believe that this is a five year old conversation between some of us, and that it has impacted so much of how i read the Bible and my viewpoint that Christ is the core of Christian living. Darrin Patrick said on twitter a few months ago that "the more time we spend with God, the less mistakes we will make with people". I reckon this can be applied to life in general and it is "the more time we spend with Christ, the less mistakes we'll make, and the more spiritual victories we'll walk through".
